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    Barbara Leigh Werner Everest University Online California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Mistake Recently a Federal Judge has court ordered California Officials to reduce the California Inmate population that is crowding their State Prisons within a six month time frame. California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is again disappointing the California people and creating a newly revised strategy to drain the pockets of several California tax payers as anemergency solution to their current

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    California dream

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    English 85 Mr. Caine 09 October 2012 California Dream California is a wonderful place to come and live. California is seen a land of opportunity and good fortune. The question is why does everyone want to come to California and what does it hold? The answer is California holds so much. You have freedom‚ live your own life style; become whatever you want and live a better life style. It’s everyone’s dream to come here and live it. California attracts many people from all around the world

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    Mexican War Expansion

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    was their mission to expand across North America. Expansion was inevitable because it would progress liberty and economic opportunity‚ expansion could have been stopped if Polk made different decisions‚ and the United States would be without certain states if the Mexican War hadn’t occurred. If the Mexican War had not occurred‚ many things would be different. For example‚ 525‚000 square miles of new territory may not have been acquired. The United States would then be without California‚ Nevada‚

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    Racing California

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    Throughout the book Racing California the main character Evan faces many obstacles while trying to reach his dream or goal of riding in the Tour de California. He faces numerous setbacks before the race that prevent or hold him back enough to make him late for the race. A goal‚ wish‚ or dream with many setbacks or hardships in the way‚ may not be “meant to be”. Throughout the book there are numerous setbacks that hold Evan back from attending the Tour de California. There are a number of things that

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    MISSION

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    Maurice Carter April 26‚ 2014 Instructor:  Thomas Else The petitioner‚ Charles Katz‚ was charged with conducting illegal gambling operations across state lines in violation of federal law. In order to collect evidence against Katz‚ federal agents placed a warrantless wiretap on the public phone booth that he used to conduct these operations. The agents listened only to Katz’s conversations‚ and only to the parts of his conversations dealing with illegal gambling transactions. In the case of

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    The Drought In California

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    Third‚ the drought in California causes the environment to change. Drought affects our environment in many different ways‚ both temporary and permanently. For the temporary impact‚ since plants and animals depend on water just like us‚ we may lose a lot of food supply. However‚ drought can impact our environment in the most serious way‚ and it will last very long even when the drought is over. The permanent impact that created by drought may include such as‚ loss of wetlands (moisture)‚ wind and

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    allegory of california

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    Allegory of California The Allegory of California is a mural painting by Diego Rivera. The artwork was created in 1931 and was done on a wall and a ceiling. The size of the painting is 472 square feet and it portrays a comprehensive view of California in terms of agriculture‚ transportation and industry of that period of time. It also exhibits dreams and hopes of the people for the brighter future. The main character of the painting is a warrior queen Califia who was the bellwether of California. She is

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    California Democracy

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    What is democracy? And most importantly is the United States and California Democratic? One of the first societies that exercised democracy was Athens. The Athenian people were democratic and valued political affairs. Thought out 594 B.C.E to 338 B.C.E democracy in Athens flourished. To the Greeks‚ democracy meant that the people ruled (L). Now we define democracy as popular sovereignty. Popular sovereignty is when the people are the ultimate source of authority and the government does their bidding

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    Natives were exploited or abused‚ although some portions of the readings like the one by Father Junipero of the San Diego Mission‚ or that of Captain Alejandro Malaspina are completely one sided. Both make it seem to the reader like the Natives were uncivilized and didn’t have a fear of God until they were taught about it. Father Junipero’s account details burning of the San Diego mission at the hands of a large amount of gentiles‚ as he calls the Indians. Captain Alejandro’s account only names the positive

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    According to Morgan (1964) he led the first overland party from the east to California and was the first to cross the Sierra Nevada Mountains going east. He discovered South Pass from the east and was the first to bring wagons through it to the west encouraging the Oregon Trail wagons to follow his exploit. [pic] Smith covered southern route

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